Sarah is the managing partner of A&O Shearman’s Bangkok office and head of its Energy, Natural Resources & Infrastructure practice.Sarah specialises in project development and finance transactions in the power and infrastructure sectors across ASEAN and the wider Asia-Pacific region. She has acted for major international commercial and institutional lenders and sponsors, and regularly negotiates concession agreements and power purchase agreements with governments and state-owned enterprises. Sarah is known as an emerging market specialist and has advised on many market-firsts in this context, most recently in Thailand, Laos and Cambodia. She also regularly advises on large-scale cross-border transactions. While Sarah is based in Bangkok, she advises on transactions across the wider region and, by way of example, is currently advising on projects in Indonesia and Vietnam.Prior to joining the Bangkok office some 14 years ago, Sarah was part of then Allen & Overy’s Structured and Asset Finance team in London, which she joined in 2009.